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[TEST] MSI N9600GT Diamond Hybrid Frozr Quick Review

MSI Afterburner 1.5.0 Beta 2 + FurMark + GPU Usage Test

NVIDIA and ATI Cards Working Together Side-by-Side, This Is Revolutionary!

The guys at hardspell.com have tested a system with a Radeon HD 3850 for the graphics rendering and a GeForce 9600 GT for the PhysX:

Links:

• HD3850+9600GT: the performances are wonderful
• Radeon and GeForce Share Work, PhysX Applications Win

The functionality of CUDA and its implementation of GPU-accelerated PhysX processing has benefited many a GeForce user. Users of ATI accelerators lacking this incentive either use Ageia PhysX card or avoid it altogether. It has been verified by Hardspell that in an environment where Radeon accelerator(s) do graphics processing, a GeForce accelerator can be used standalone to process PhysX. Hardspell used a Radeon HD 3850 along with a GeForce 9600 GT on the same system with the display connected to the Radeon, though no form of multi-GPU graphics connection existed, the GeForce card partnered the Radeon well in processing physics, while the Radeon did graphics. Results of the oZone 3D FluidMark, a benchmark that includes routines to evaluate the machine’s capability in processing physics, showed a greater than 350% increase in scores, showing that the GeForce accelerator is doing its job.

More news about PhysX: PhysX @ Geeks3D
More news about FluidMark: FluidMark @ Geeks3D

BFG GeForce 9600 GT OCX and 8800 GT OCX Review

Guru3D has published a review on BFG’s GeForce 8800 GT and 9600 GT in their OCX version. OCX means OverClocking eXtreme. Both cards have the ZeroTHERM cooling solution.

BFG 960 GT OXC:
- GPU: G94
- shader processors: 64
- core clock: 725MHz (ref=650MHz)
- shader clock: 1850MHz (ref=1625MHz)
- memory clock: 972MHz (ref=900MHz)
- memory: 512Mb GDDR3 / 256-bit
- DirectX 10 / OpenGL 2.1

BFG 8800 GT OXC:
- GPU: G92
- shader processors: 112
- core clock: 700MHz (ref=600MHz)
- shader clock: 1728MHz (ref=1512MHz)
- memory clock: 1000MHz (ref=900MHz)
- memory: 512Mb / 256-bit
- DirectX 10 / OpenGL 2.1

Read the complete review here: BFG GeForce 9600 GT OCX and 8800 GT OCX review.

The verdict:
The OCX cards tested today both qualify as cards among the best we have ever tested. Though it would have been nicer to see a black PCB or something special, everything else is just top notch. Excellent thermal design, low temperatures while retaining a low noise level.

MSI GeForce 9600 GT Hybrid Freezer Review

This graphics card by MSI, is equiped with MSI’s new cooler using Hybrid Freezer technology. It offers a total silence in idle (normal Windows operation) as well as in loading (during intensive gaming). This card has 1Gb of onboard memory that can help when the gamer wants to play at ultra high resolution (but in that case, the gameplay is limited by the power of the 9600 GT so ultra high res gaming is not an good example of application of 1Gb of memory). Anyway, the cooler is the key of this GeForce and temperature stays around 46 degrees in idle and does not exceed 65 degrees in full load.

MSI GeForce 9600 GT Hybrid Freezer has the following features:
- GPU: G94
- stream processors: 64
- core clock: 650MHz
- shader clock: 1625MHz
- memory clock: 900MHz
- memory: 1Gb DDR3 / 256-bit
- DirectX 10 / OpenGL 2.1 / Shader Model 4.0

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Sparkle GeForce 9600 GT Passive Cooler Review

Guru3D has just published a review about the Sparkle’s GeForce 9600 GT passively cooled with 512MB GDDR3 memory.

The GeForce 9600 GT has the followinfg features:
- GPU: G94 (or D9M)
- shader processors: 64
- ROPs: 16
- transistors: 505M / 65nm
- core clock: 650MHz (ref: 650MHz)
- memory clock: 900Mhz (ref: 800MHz)
- shader clock: 1625MHz (ref: 1600MHz)
- memory: 512Mb DDR3 / 256-bit
- DirectX 10 / OpenGL 2.1 / shader model 4.0

The Verdict:
With a pretty standard amount of airflow in the PC the core temperature of this passively cooled product just did not exceed 60 degrees C. And that’s pretty extraordinary as I’ve seen active cooled solutions at much higher thermals.
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With such great temperatures I did what I normally do not do with a passively cooled product, I overclocked it. Standard clocks are 650/1600/800 for the core, shader processors and memory respectively. We boosted performance up big-time, by overclocking the card to 766/1955/1053 MHz. That is 10 to 15% extra performance straight out of the box there. For a passive product that’s just an astounding overclock.

Read the complete review here: Sparkle GeForce 9600 GT Passive Cooler.

Want more news about the GeForce 9600 GT: GeForce 9600 GT @ Geeks3D.

Galaxy GeForce 9600 GT Silent Heatpipe Review

Guru3D has published a nice review about Galaxy’s GeForce 9600 GT Silent Heatpipe.

For the sake of memory, here are the features of the GeForce 9600 GT: built on the G94 GPU 65nm (also called D9M), 64 shader processors, DirectX 10, OpenGL 2.1, 512Mb GDDR3, 256-bit memory interface, 650MHz core clock, 1600MHz shader clock and 900MHz memory clock, 505 million transistors.

Read the complete review here: Galaxy GeForce 9600 GT Silent Heatpipe review.

The Verdict:
Galaxy’s GeForce 9600 GT 512MB Silent heatpipe graphics card is once again a fine product to own.
I like the somewhat customized design and I definitely am charmed by the cooler. Even on a hot day, it performed good enough in our test-environment. You however will need decent airflow inside that PC of yours to get that residual heat from the innards of your PC and you need to remember that the cooler is pretty bulky.

Related Links:
- Galaxy GF 9600GT Silent @ GALAXY Technology

Graphics Cards Reviews Round-up

GeForce 9600 GT
- Chaintech GeForce 9600 GT @t TheTechLounge
- GIGABYTE 9600GT @ Tweaktown
- NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Round-up: PNY, MSI, ASUS

GeForce 9800 GTX
- XFX 9800 GTX @ DriverHeaven

GeForce 9800 GX2
- ASUS EN9800GX2 @ elitebastards.com

GeForce 8800 GT
- MSI NX8800GT Zilent @ tech-reviews.co.uk

Graphics cards reviews round-up

The latest graphics cards reviews of the week:

GeForce 9800 GX2
- XFX GeForce 9800GX2 @ Motherboards.org

GeForce 9800 GTX
- GeForce 9800 GTX vs 9800 GX2
- Foxconn GeForce 9800 GTX OC 512MB Video Card
- ASUS EN9800GTX TOP @ elitebastards.com
- Asus EN9800GTX @ Hardwarelogic

GeForce 9600 GT
- Geforce 9600GT SLI Performance
- BFG Tech 9600GT @ Tweaktown
- XFX GeForce 9600GT at TweakTown
- PNY Verto 9600 GT @ Legitreviews
- Twintech GeForce 9600GT XXT OC Edition
- Palit GeForce 9600GT at Benchmark Reviews

GeForce 9600 GSO
- Palit Geforce 9600 GSO at TechwareLabs
- Palit 9600 GSO @ NeoSeeker

GeForce 8800 GTS
- Asus 8800GTS @ CDRInfo

GeForce 8800 GT
- BFG 8800 GT OCX @ I4U News
- ECS 8800GT 256MB @ Virtual-Hideout
- ECS GeForce 8800GT at Virtual-Hideout

Radeon HD 3870
- Sapphire HD 3870 @ Tweaktown

Radeon HD 3850 X2
- ASUS EAH3850 X2 @ ThinkComputers

Radeon HD 3650
- Diamond HD 3650 PE @ TheTechLounge
- MSI Radeon HD 3650 @ X-bit labs

NVIDIA illustrates HD movie transcoding capabilities of GPUs

We already knew NVIDIA is going to heavily promote the HD movie transcoding capabilities of its GPUs through CUDA but here are some very specific numbers. According to the slide it takes a 1.6GHz dual-core CPU 10 hours and 22 minutes to encode a 2 hour long HD movie while a 3GHz quad-core processor finishes the job in 5 hours in 33 minutes.

The same 1.6GHz dual-core system with a GeForce 9600 GT will be able to complete the job in only 49 minutes! That’s more than 12x as fast and the GeForce 9600 GT isn’t even a high-end part. I can imagine that faster GPUs like the upcoming GeForce GTX 280 will be able to do it much faster.